Door hanger



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Patented Nov. 25, 1924.

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I Application, filed, December 9, 1922'. Serial No. 605,777.

To. aZZ w from it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD Y. Moons, a citizen of the United States,,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Door Hangers, of whichthe following is full, clear, and ct. scription, eference. being: a o the ccompany ng d aw ngs;

This inventionrelatesto,a,hanger suitable for suspending, s iding. lnora. such. s us d. or? instance, o bsggagecars, fa ori and various buildings. One of the objects of the inventionis to. provide a simple construction which shall have ample strength to support the door and which shall dietribute the load over the supporting rail. Another object is to arrange each hanger with a plurality of supporting wheels properly equalized so that each carries its share of the load. Still another object is to provide an adjustment enabling two hangers to support the door with its edges accurately vertical and horizontal, notwithstanding uneven wear of the parts or inaccurate securing of the hanger to the door.

My invention is illustrated in the drawings hereof and is hereinafter more fully explained in connection. therewith and its l essential features are summarized in the claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my hanger showing adjacent portions of the supporting trackway and the supported door; Fig. 2 is a vertical central section, as indicated by the line 22 on Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section as indicated by the offset line 3-3 on Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a diagram in the nature of side elevation of one of the equalizer bars.

,As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, A indicates the supporting track, which is shown as an angle bar mounted on a flanged member B; 0 indicates a door which is shown as a metal member reinforced at its upper edge by an. angle bar D, though of course, the invention is not limited to any particular form of trackway or door.

designates the main frame of my hanger which is preferably a ribbed casting having a flat portion adapted to be suitably secured to'the door and having an offset upwardly extending neck 11 having an opening 12 in which a supporting pin may be mounted. The hanger frame is secured to the face of the door in any suitable manner, as for intil the hanger frame and the .two' supporting bars journaled on the pin, but the pin may be readily removed to disconnect such; parts.

.lifounted in the supporting bars equidistantly on opposite sides of'the pivot pin 20 are stationary journal pins SOtightlysecured to the bars. As shown, each pin has a reduced portion 31. extending through an opening 26 in the bar, this reduced portion being threaded to receive a nut 32. The nut 32 screws tightly against the side of the bar and clamps it against the shoulder of the pin. Journaled on the pins 30 are two supporting wheels 40. These wheels are suitably grooved to track on the supporting rail A, and turn freely on the pins 30, either on a plain bearing as shown, or a roller bearing, if desired.

It will be seen that the construction described allows the weight of the door on each hanger to be distributed equally to the two supporting wheels associated therewith, the bars 22 swinging slightly on their pivot to accommodate any inequality in the track A.

To maintain the. door in accurate position, not-withstanding uneven wear on the track. wheel heads or bearings, or inaccurate positioning of the track or hanger frames, it is desirable to provide a slight adjustment to enable the raising or lowering of the supporting wheels with relation to the hanger frame. I accomplish this in a very simple manner, by making the opening 25 in the bars 22 which the central pin 20 occupies, slightly out of the plane connecting the centers of the opening 26 for the two journal pins 30, Then the relation of the wheels to the hanger frame may be changed by removing the pivot pin and turning the bars and the two wheels the other side up.

As indicated in Fig. 4, the center of the central hole 25 for the pivot pin is a slight distance above the plane through the centers of the holes 26 for the journal pins. 7N ow if the pivot pin 20 were removed, and "the bars and wheels inverted, the hole 25 would come into the position shown in broken lines in Fig. 4, and the effect would be to slightly lower the hanger frame and hence the door at that edge. I find that this simple provision "for adjustment is amply sufficient to overcome the inaccuracies. mentioned.

My hanger is made of simple parts, may be cheaply constructed, andreadily applied; when in'use the load is distributed to at least four points on the trackway and equaL ized thereon, while the adjustmenthereto- HEOIG explained compensates for inaccuracy in original installation or by reason of wear.

pin, the axis of the pivot pin being located a short distance out of the plane in which the axes of the wheels lie, whereby the bars may be reversed and thereby compensate for wear on the track.

2. In a door hanger, the combination of a frame adapted to be secured to a door and having an upward extension with an opening through it, a. pair of flat bars on opposite sides of the extension said extension and bars having aligning cylindrical holes, a removable pin occupying said holes, a pair of journal pins having enlarged bearingportions between the bars and reduced coxtensions passing through the liars and means for clamping the bars. against the shoulders provided by the enlarged portions, and wheels mounted on the ournal 131118 the cylindrical holes through the bars which the, I

pivot pin occupies having their common axis in a plane spaced a slight distance from the plane connecting the axes of the journal pins whereby reversal of the bars may compensate for an uneven track.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aliix my signature.

EDWARD Y. MOORE. 

